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| Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are? U2 - Joshua Tree (1987). "Without or Without You" (track #1) to benchmark the Bass. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors (1977). #1 selling album of all time until Thriller (1982). Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon (1973). Amazing collection of sounds includ... | |
| Cartridge question I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the headshell provides at most 0.002% of the total audio output quality. So if you don't optimize that headshell your audio quality ceiling will be limited to 99.998%, and you'll be leaving that 0.002% o... | |
| Types of Audiophiles The Jelousifier. Wants a system that will impress under any circumstances. It must be cheap, powerful, sound great, be beautiful, and innovative (now or for its time), all at once. I want state-of-the-art from 20 30 40 years ago and I want it for... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused 50 years ago when I was a little pup, half of the cost of an audio system went into the amplification stage (transistor or tube amplifier). Also, the main sound sources (radio, records) were VERY large (we had a roof antenna in our attic that was ... | |
| Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went? When i was in college it was everybody's goal to have a stereo in their dorm room. Stereo Systems sold like hotcakes, about $600 could get you a speakers, receiver, and cassette deck ($300/$200/$100, borrow someone else's turntable to turn your r... | |
| how much should I spend to get a better turntable than my current turntable? My Dual 1019 was a Bay-Area craigslist bargain, $300 (includes Shure m55e cartridge which is the same stylus and mechanism as Shure V15 type 1). It was in like-new condition, but no accessories (i dumped about $150 into ebay for accessories, inclu... | |
| how much should I spend to get a better turntable than my current turntable? Here is the problem: If you want to buy a good boombox, today there is NOTHING. If you want to buy a good cassette deck, today there is NOTHING. So, I recommend you buy a vintage turntable from the golden age. Dual 1019 is the workhorse tur... | |
| dust protection for turntables I bought a used $30 radioshack smoke-colored hinged cover and I just let the hinge tabs hang off the back of my Dual 1019 turntable. It’s close enough that if I place it just right I can cover the table when NOT in use. When playing a record I jus... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? I think the question is, "How vintage do you want it?" I bought the #1 selling HiFi turntable of my early youth, the German-made Dual 1019. These were state-of-the-art best-sellers from 1965-70 and millions were sold in the USA on even the highes... | |
| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... If you want quality you virtually have to consider used gear. This is especially true for tape decks ; NO quality tape decks being made anymore. There is perhaps a resurgence in quality turntables but they cost twice as much as they should be co... | |
| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... Just thinking out loud, the turntable & tone arm & cartridge were less than 1/3rd of my original investment; the $200 used 1019 turntable from local craigslist (United Audio base; Shure m55e cartridge) was just the start of the adventure. ... | |
| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... I am so old I am happy to invest in a state-of-the-art-in-my-childhood equipment, so I am at $600 all-in (Dual 1019 fully automatic German idler-drive turntable, Shure M55e AND Shure m97xe AND Shure V15 Type IV cartridge NOS in radio shack livery ... | |
| Installing dedicated 10 gauge lines Seriously, you could consider more efficient speakers (not everybody needs magnaplanars?) or a more efficient amplifier (what about class A/B instead of class Y?), instead of ripping out your walls to try to do all of this. I mean, if your amplif... | |
| When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song. I would say that I bought Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" album mainly for 1 song, but it's not even my favorite song on the album any more. Now I like ... every ... single ... song. More often than not, if you hear an album enough tim... | |
| Why should audiophile deniers be allowed on an audiophile forum? Why should we be subjected to audiophile deniers, on a site dedicated to audio? It’s antithetical to the hobby and adds nothing to the pursuit. I want to quote something from another thread. What then, is the purpose of people with this agenda... |